Tenderness Quotes

Try a little tenderness ...

— Sara Zarr

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

— Pope Francis

There is no tenderness without bravery.

— Katherine Center

“My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Tenderness is a tough spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To know the pain of too much tenderness

— Anonymous

One must endure without losing tenderness.

— Che Guevara

Beauty comes from tenderness.

— Katherine Center

Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

— Anna Akhmatova

“Love! Love! Your tenderness, Your beautiful, watchful ways”

— Katherine Mansfield

“They stayed there, tangled in each other, heartbeats racing. Nothing mattered but this.”

— C.G. Drews

“Tenderness is strength, vulnerability is power.”

— VD

“Tenderness relieves strength that encumbers.”

— Toba Beta

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

— William Faulkner

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

— Marlene Dietrich

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

— Samuel Johnson

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

— Mother Teresa

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

— Oswald Chambers

“and this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty which is, of course, a garden, which is a tenderness,…

— Richard Siken

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped…

— Rachel McAdams

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge...

— Rumi

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros,…

— Rollo May

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,…

— Edward Gibbon

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and…

— Rich Mullins

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering…

— Rumi

“How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you…

— Jocelyn Soriano

“You return when you feel like it, like rain. And like rain you are tender, with the rain's inept tenderness. A passion…

— linda gregg

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man…

— Sally Struthers

We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still…

— Anais Nin

A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He…

— James E. Faust

“The sun spangled the big pond, and through the quivers of light, we watched scores of fat koi that swam there from…

— Dean Koontz

I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness…

— Roger Housden

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.…

— Frederick William Robertson

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting…

— Anonymous

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back.…

— Orson Scott Card

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook…

— Anonymous